From The LA Times: Some protests serve the government’s purposes, but they may be difficult to contain, analysts say.
From his cramped studio apartment littered with dirty socks, old Pepsi bottles and instant noodles, Lu Yunfei has whipped up a wave of anti-Japan sentiment across China using little more than a laptop and a high-speed connection.
Since February, the 30-year-old founder of the Patriots’ Alliance website and his colleagues have collected 3.5 million signatures for a petition to block Tokyo’s bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. They also object to Japan’s approval of a school textbook that critics say glosses over the nation’s wartime occupation of China and other countries in East Asia.
